How to Dodge the Ice Caverns Monsters | Dark and Darker 

Yo gamers, thank you for watching the vid! Sorry I didn't include the nightmare versions in this video, I couldn't get enough of their spawns to capture their unique moves so we will save that for another video specific to all the nightmare grades but I will compile the info on them from the comments in this pinned message! Nightmare Skele Footman: +Overhead swing [side step] +Clockwise Sideswipe [crouch look down or space] Nightmare Skele Guardsman: +Upwards left diagonal swing [strafe left and look down + crouch] thank you ChiefBanana, sawritall4292, theexsalted9352!

In my opinion you are becoming the go to dark and darker creator. I love the relaxed and informative attitude you have about the game and its shortcomings alongside its strengths. Too many people fall into the trap of defending dumb decisions or complaining to complain. Also the amount of effort going into the editing and animation showcase is nothing short of triple AAA.

Thanks Ryan, all of your sacrifices to learn this will help us confidently fight these new monsters. I mean, we'll still mess up and die horribly, but at least we'll be confident

by far the best dark and darker tutorials on RU-vid.

I've found that crouching and strafing to the right dodges all the melee skeleton attacks. Thanks for the video!

Hey again Ryan! Thank you so much for making these high quality amazing guides for everyone, always exiting to see your video first thing on my RU-vid recommendations, keep everything up man

Beautiful presentation as always Ryan. You make such relaxing videos, and informative ones at that!

This is God sent. Thank you

YESSSSS been waiting for this! I figured out a couple of them already kinda. thank you for this!

Ryan thanks again for another awesome video. This was done with great speed, and great accuracy. You're the goat of informational video making for this community.

Wendigo Tip: I've only seen the Wendigo attack starting from the LEFT and then RIGHT. So it's different from a demon Berserker which has a random right or left. Its actually easier.

RYAN WTF YOU JUST KILLED ME!!! I was the no shirt orc , HostileEntity, I was trying to kill a giant in icecaves, and you rolled up in an falchioned me. GGS

Been waiting for this! Excited to watch.

Love the content, I extracted from one of my ice cavern games and while spectating saw you were playing your dw fighter :)

I LOVE YOUR CONTENT RYAN YOURE A LEGEND

Excellent content as usual

Was waiting for this one since the ice caves dropped! Youre the only reason i survive in these dungeons Ryan! Big cheers!

Ryan we need you now more than ever. Wipe is coming and we're gonna need the best to do it to make us a warlord tutorial.

Do dodge the frost giant shielder, you can apparently crouch and look up and backwards so your head goes through his body. He then misses you for some reason.

with the wipe giving us these new quests, and no more ruinz I'm trying this map out and this is a good video man thanks. I was came just for the berserker, but watched the whole thing and did learn alot. Thanks Ryan

i was desprate for this video. thanks mate

Yeah, Boy! Now I will become a master of ice dungeons!

Nice video! I already figured these out on my own immediately, but I always love the quality of a Ryan6Days video

Lfg Ryan this is so needed

Well put together guide. Good looks.

Great video, thanks!

One of the best DaD content creators out there

Was waiting for this one 🙏🏼

Just wanna point out that Ironmace says they’re getting rid of cheese spots, and then they add stacks of boxes to rooms with mini bosses that are obviously made to cheese them with. Idk just seems odd to constantly add more ways to cheese and also be patching out old ways of doing it

As usual great video ryan have a good weekend

Another banger, this is why all new players get sent to this channel. 🤙

I'm running out of ways to say awesome things about your videos, so I'll change languages for dramatic effect. Asombrosa!

Man to be honest your video production, schedule and love for this game are leagues beyond what any other Dark&Darker creator has going on. No hate to anyone, you are just the best at it man

Yay new guide. Thanks Ryan.

Thanks for the info Ryan! but correct me if im wrong i think there is also 2 wide swings for nightmare frost skelly that you didn't mention. Much love

appreciated as always 🙂

Ayyy!! I'm sure you were already working on this, but I suggested it on your question!!

rly good video, ty bro

Righteous parry with the longsword at the end 🔥

Idk if its currently relevant to this video, but i have noticed that nightmare swordboners have a extra trick up their sleeve when they swipe so players should still treat them as dangerous, nightmare ice archers are the same as regular nightmare ones, and ive yet to see a shieldboner of the nightmare variety, these guys are notoriously rare for some reason.

I love your videos! Thank you so much for passively helping me kill the mobs. I do have a question though. As someone that’s bad at the PvP in this game, is there any chance I could hit demigod before wipe?

ty bro, im terrible and this video helped tremendously

never fails to make a good video, my goat

Thanks again, I feel like Ice caverns feels a like it goes alot smoother if you just take your time and learn all that you can. I feel like Ironmace wants make more maps that punish players for skipping rooms with lots of mobs, but I'm not 100% sure what they want to do. After being in the Ice caves alot this really helps me figure out how to deal with the Wendigo and giants so thanks alot. I still use the shield optimally to this day because of you.

Wanna add that kobolds do not exclusively signal other kobolds as I've seen them aggro skeletons and even a wendigo. Noticed this primarily as we've pulled said mobs through walls.

the frost archer has a sideswipe melee attack also, and the sword skellies have a 3rd attack, that is a diagonal attack but it starts at the bottom and goes up.

Aint sure if its featured or glitched, the kobolds actually alert skeletons as well, there are times they alert skeletons and kobolds, in the other rooms even. With the mob densities. There are times my friends and I had to deal with both rooms mobs ( the scream lured some skeleton archers) ending up clearing like 15 mobs. Mobs are easy to dealt with but just be aware.

The frost guardsmen do have a slash that starts from the bottom right and goes left/up (from your pov). You dodge it with the normal bait and run tactic, and can probably step left and crouch under it

The content we need,but the question is how many times where you blinded by your cloak playing this map?

The archers also have a very rare attack where they hold the bow like a bat and do a horizontal swing. I've only seen them do it once though and I was like "wtf" - not sure if it was a normal or a nightmare, but I just dodged it pretty much the same as the shove attack.

legend

I've been waiting for your video. I had developed some strategies that worked, but I knew you would have the best methods. You have helped so many players be able to more enjoy this game. Some times it's hard to just test things. The crouching on the bowman is a great example. Never thought to do it. You are the only "dodge DnD monsters" guide maker that matters. Thanks for all your help.

U R Amazing bro

VIDEO SUGGESTION- Could you please do a video breaking down drop chances and how luck affects your chances of pulling better loot? Also what exactly can drop / where to find legendaries / uniques and other stuff like that

I was a simple man. I get hit by Ice Skeleton, I use potion. I see ryan6daysaweek Dodge video, I have evolved.

Are you using blender to recreate the enemy animations?

THIS IS WHAT WE SUB FOR WOOOO

The ice archer’s forward shove doesn’t have good tracking, it can easily be sidestepped. I’ve found that more consistent. Also I’ve been having trouble ducking under the side swipe for spearmen and axemen, any tips? I’m wondering if they’re hitting my cloak

Hugging the wendigo makes it much easier. LOVE IS YOUR STRONGEST MOVE!

Pin this: The Ice skeleton guardsman also has a left upwards diagonal. To avoid it, strafe left and look down + crouch or space it as it doesn't move the mob forward too much. Ty for the video nonetheless 👍

The shielder also seems to have an attack that tracks you through their shield bash in certain scenarios. Don't know if it's RNG or not but it has messed me up a couple times.

What about the wolves? i try to block em with my shield as a fighter but i get hit and block, so im slow downed and taken my hp away, same thing with the skeleton swordsmans

I would like to point out and love for you to test this on the Kobold Shield Users.... If you hit their shields directly it hurts them. I noticed this after a series of times I would land an attack on their shield, putting them into their critical range to shout for help. I proceeded to hit their shield again on purpose and it kills them. Please try it out!

hey, how do you export the models and view their animations?

look right for the skeleton stab so he doesn't clip your elbows if you're slower

i fought 100 of those skeleton bowman before i encountered a nightmare one, didn't even realize in the dark. I thought i had them on lock, then he took his bow like a bat and took my head off xD

it's here

Does anybody know what the "frost walkers" refer to for the collector quest?

You don’t know pain in this game till you die to mobs with a golden chest in you inventory

Okay, you can do it flawlessly with bard, now how do you dodge them all as a slow barb, plate fighter cleric? That’s where I struggle

Forgot to mention that hitting the wendigo in its blue spot does extra damage

AIGHT CHAT HEAR ME OUT! Make goblin caves the "inferno map" for ice caves (don't ask me to explain that lore wise). Keep ruins/ crypts/ inferno as it is. Allow non-HR to que between all maps and party sizes for easy questing = 6 lobbies. Then HR solo/duo/trio rotates between layers ice/goblin cave and layerd ruins/crypts/inferno. Resulting in 9 lobbies.

loving this map, good thing they removed map rotation

Is it just me or does the Frost Giant Berserkers combo attack have more than two attacks now??

giant shielder hits when you dodge to the left, the explanation is unreliable or they updated it

TLDW: "if you have the movespeed for it."; "if you have the movespeed for it."; "if you have the movespeed for it." I'm tired boss. I want block consistency.

Its really hard to tell the difference between the normal/elite versions and the nightmare versions of these mobs imo

Ongly

seems to be a bug in your game, that frost giant dropped a purple cloak instead of a white lantern.

These tricks still working?

Tbf, Ironmace has said a lot of shit. but they aren't fixing anything until they get some people in that office that knows how to code and not break shit that requires a rollback shortly after

0/10 guide didn't mention how to dodge Icicles dropping on my head while looting gold pile.

And now the ice caves are full

its to late for me i rely on all the cheese spots -_-

I actually hate the frost skeleton footman and shield man. I hope whoever designed them drops a whole family sized lasagna on their favorite shoes

I think something they need to change for enemies attacks that require you to crouch AND look down. Is to only require you to crouch. Having to look at the floor is just annoying, alongside for instance the frost giant(and many other enemies) have potential follow up attacks that you need to look at them for to be aware of what is coming. Looking down just makes this more aggravating to do and a bit sickening from all the jerky camera movement you have to do.. All they have to do is change it so you can just crouch. But dont have to look down(or up).

remake/update this please

You confuse me when you reference counter clockwise and clockwise. I’m not sure what you’re attributing that to when you say it. From whose perspective? I think you should address things from the players persoective since that’s who we are

Removing the cheese is a dumb idea

They need to make all enemies dodgeable without a MS requirement. Also, they need to fix skeleton spear & axe horizontal swing to be consistent on level ground when crouch dodging. Or has anyone figured out to make the horizontal swing consistent? Never mind I think I found it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SO7_T9EEirY.html

Nerf those archers IM!! That shove is so fucking annoying

PRO TIP TO NEVER EVER GET HIT: don't play ice cave🗿

Please dont use this song... the annoying sound sounds like my ear clearing of water....